Another Blow to State's and Individual Rights

Well, the Extreme Court has done it again, overstepped its bounds and continued the oppression of the States by the Federal Government. I'm speaking of the recent decision to ban medical marijuana. Now, where they think that they got their power is beyond me, it seems to me that the Constitution of this great country DOESN'T GIVE THEM THE AUTHORITY TO JUDGE THE LAWS OF A GIVEN STATE--only to (according to Article III) "controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State;--between Citizens of different States;--between Citizens of the same State claiming Land under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects."

This controversy originally arose because California wrote a law that allowed their citizens to grow and use their own marijuana under a doctor's recommendation, typically for pain control or control of nausea due to chemotherapy. Now, I am not proclaiming to be an advocate of marijuana, but if the citizens of the State of California decide that is what they want, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO AUTHORITY in the matter. NONE. Frankly, I think that the governing body of the State of California and all the other states should tell the Extreme Court justices to go take a flying leap!! SOMEBODY PLEASE GROW A SPINE AND TELL THE FEDS THAT THEY DON'T OWN THE STATES!!

In the past the Justices claimed authority to interpret the laws of a given state under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution which reads:
"The Congress shall have the Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and General Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with Indian Tribes;
etc."

So, what they would do is say that the federal government controlled commerce between the states, and since marijuana was made illegal by the federal government, they could then come into the individual states and declare any marijuana found there to be part of interstate commerce (whether it was grown in the state or not) and take control of it and throw people in jail. Of course, most of the states have followed suit and made marijuana illegal as well, so they could do the same thing. What California did, was write the law specifically to avoid falling under the "Commerce Clause" to avoid the same old BS from the federal Courts. Here now the Extreme Court seems to think that they have jurisdiction, which they DON'T. AM I THE ONLY PERSON THAT SEES THIS?? AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT BELIEVES IN STATE SOVEREIGNTY?? SCREW THE COURT!! Tell them to enforce their own law.

The truth of the matter is that nobody will go against this ruling and the continued progress of the elimination of state's rights. I don't know of a single politician that would have the balls to go on television and declare that the Supreme Court doesn't have jurisdiction in their own states' laws, because most of the sheeple (to borrow from Michael Savage) haven't been educated properly as to what their rights really are, and they would therefore declare the man to be insane and vote him out of office. In addition, those in power would go ballistic and do everything they could to villify and destroy the person that stood up for state's rights.

Frankly, I just see this as another in a long line of abuses by the feds over the states, and it started before the Civil War. Anyone who believes that the Civil War was because of slavery is either an idiot, or simply another person who has not been educated by our wonderful school system. The Civil War was over State's rights, pure and simple. Slavery was a part of it, but it wasn't the impetus for the war as so many of today's educators would like us to believe. But, that history lesson will have to wait for another time....

Semper ingenuus, Semper liberum!!

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